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Re: Regional differences in P2P


From: Sean Donelan <sean () donelan com>
Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2004 03:11:56 -0400 (EDT)


On Sun, 18 Jul 2004, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
Well, if the p2p program gets chunks of data from all sources, anyone with
a faster uplink will complete faster and thus get more chunks (as the p2p
program requests new chunks from each peer as the previous one is
finished), and thus produce more traffic. Not much intelligence, just the
way they work.

http://www.itic.ca/DIC/global/2003/09/Top_ISPs_by_P2P_Activity.jpg



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